Hannah Brown b. 1977, Salisbury, England

Lives and works in London

 

EDUCATION 

2004-06     MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK 
2002-03     PGCE Art and Design (14 - 19), Institute of Education, London, UK

1996-99     First Class BA Hons, Fine Art Sculpture, CSM, London, UK

1995-96     Art and Design Foundation Course, Exeter College, Devon, UK

 

 SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2024   Hollow Pond, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, US

2023   Hollow Pond, solo presentation at the Armory Show, New York, US 

2022   I Stood Still, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK

2020   This Muddy Eden, Two-person show with Christopher Orr, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, UK 

2019   Before Long, Union Gallery, London, UK

2017   Nocturnes, Cross Gallery, Dublin, UK

2017   Lain fallow for too Long, dalla Rosa gallery, London, UK 

2016   Finding Forms, Two-person show with Cara Thorpe, Cross Gallery, Dublin, IE

2015   A Lane to the Land, Payne Shurvell at 71 Blandford Street, London, UK 

2015   Not Just Yet, Cross Gallery, Dublin, IE

2015   The Winter Girls, Milton Keynes Arts Centre, Milton Keynes, UK 

2014   Hannah Brown: Selected Paintings, PayneShurvell at The House of St Barnabas, UK

2012   The Unseen Landscape, PayneShurvell, London, UK

2012   Time Hangs Heavy, The China Shop Gallery, Oxford, UK

2011   Encounter, two-person show with Gary Colclough, Gallery Primo Alonso, London, UK

2009   Hannah Brown, Vital Arts at Barts Gallery, London, UK

2006   Hannah Brown, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

2004   Life and Love, Great Eastern Hotel, London, UK

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024   Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US

2023   Twenty Year Anniversary Exhibition, Union Gallery, London, UK

2023   Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds and Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Leeds, UK

2023   Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK

2023   Hinterland, curated by Jane Neal at John Martin Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, UK

2022   Expanding Landscapes: Painting after Land Art, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, UK

2022   Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK

2022   Crossing Boundaries, APT Gallery, London, UK

2022   Lustrum Frestonian, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK

2022 If you forget my name, You will go astray, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, US

2022   Wish you were here, Terrace Gallery, London, UK

2022   Arcadia, Offshoot Arts in collaboration with A Space for Art at Home House, London, UK

2022   Regeneration, Informality, Henley-on-Thames, UK

2022   Ground, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, UK

2021   Unkempt – Shifting Aesthetics in Landscape Painting, Messums, Wiltshire, UK 

2021   Companions, Union Pacific, London, UK
2021   John Moores Painting Prize 2020, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK 

2021   Holding Hands, Union Gallery, London, UK
2021   The Deepest Shade of Green, Saolta Arts and Galway 2020, Galway, IE

2020   The Green Fuse, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK

2020   Everyday, curated by Ben Walker, Terrace Gallery, London, UK 

2019   Betwixt and Between, Arthouse1, London, UK 

2019   The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow, London, UK 
2019   Flat + Earth, Sidney and Matilda, Sheffield, UK

2018   The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2018   LAND//SCAPE, Lone Wolf Projects, Exchange Berlin, Kuehlhaus, Berlin, DE

2018   Kristian Day Papercuts, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 
2018 The Annotated Reader, curated by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P Watts, Cork Street Galleries, London, UK
2018 The Waiting Room, curated by Karen David, Wimbledon Space, London, UK
2018 Ash Archive, The Brewery Tap, Folkstone, Kent, UK
2018   New Relics, curated by Kate Terry and Tim Ellis, Thames Side Studios, London, UK 
2018   Mindscapes, bo.lee gallery, London, UK  

2017   The Arborealists: The Art of Trees, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK 

2017   Below the Surface,  OVADA, Oxford, UK 

2017   A Table of Elements, Curated by Graham Crowley and Juilan Perry, Greystone Industries, Suffolk, UK

2017   Silence Un-scene, Lewisham Art House, London, UK 

2017   A5-n, dalla Rosa gallery, London, UK

2016   Solid Gone in the Back Room, Holdrons Arcade, London, UK

2016   Landing, Kristian Day at Herrick Gallery, London, UK

2016   Marmite Prize for Painting, Block 336, London and Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland, IE

2016   The Arborealists, St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, UK

2015   Blow Up, Parafin, London, UK

2015   London Painting Survey, Barbican Arts Trust, London, UK 
2015   The Arborealists, Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire, UK
2015   The East London Painting Prize, Bow ArtsTrust, London, UK

2014   Five Painters, Cross Gallery, Dublin, IE

2014   The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2014   Arboretum, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2014   The Ruskin Prize Recording Britain Now, at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield and Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK
2014   The East London Painting Prize, Bow ArtsTrust, London, UK
2014   This Bright and Guilty Place 2, PayneShurvell at the Hospital Club, London, UK 

2013   The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2013   Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2013   Group Show, The China Shop Gallery, Oxford, UK
2013   At the Edges, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK

2012   John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2012   Alter, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
2012   Hello and Goodbye, 17-25 Cremer Street, London, UK 
2012   Launch, A-Side B-Side, London, UK 

2011   The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2011   Creekside Open 2011, Selected by Phyllida Barlow, APT Gallery, London, UK
2011   Modern British Sculpture, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

2010   Legacy 1, L.I.U, London, UK

2009   Arctic Fox , Vulpes Vulpes, London, UK

2009   Clearout, Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2009   Creekside Open 2009, Selected by Mark Wallinger, APT Gallery, London, UK
2009   Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects at Islington Art fair, London, UK

2008   Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London, UK

2008   Suffragette City, The Spare Room, London, UK
2008   '00 Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, London, UK

2007   Downstairs Review, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

2007   Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London, UK
2007   Private Prop, The Residence, London, UK
2007   Winter Show, Contemporary Art Projects, London, UK
2007   MA and other Post Graduates, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset, UK

2006   Day-to-Day Data, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London, UK

2006   Between Place and Space, Blyth Gallery, London, UK

2005   Dyscotopiary, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2005   Day-to-Day Data, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2005   Day-to-Day Data, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
2005   Short and Sharp, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2005   Gone in 60 Seconds, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK

2004   Shop!, IMT, London, UK

2004   Damn Fine Cup of Coffee, Discotheque group show, London, UK
2004   Flat 1, Discotheque group show, London, UK
2004   Love N Bullets, Transition Gallery, London, UK

2003   Spike Island Fayre, Spike Island Gallery, Bristol, UK

2003   Render Red Nose, MOT, London, UK
2003   Brand New Letchworth, B+B on tour, The Place, Letchworth, UK
2003   Et Tu Billy Buzman!, Nancy Victor Gallery, London, UK
2003   Artist as Entrepreneur, The Place, Letchworth, UK

2000   21, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Devon

1999   Directions, Lethaby Gallery, London

1999   Readymade Project, Wunderkammer, London

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS

2022   Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now exhibition catalogue

2020   What does it Mean to Paint a Landscape? Hannah Brown and Rebecca Partridge in conversation, Berlin Art Link, 05.06.20

2018   London Open: a snapshot of the artistic zeitgeist, Financial Times, 09.08.18 by Rachel Spence

2018   Whitechapel open to what’s happening now, Morning Star, 26.06.18 by Michal Boncza

2017   The Arborealists: The Art of Trees, The Observer, 31.12.17 by Rachel Cooke

2017   The artist who prompts us to ask: what are we missing? The Irish Times, 18.12.17 by Adrian Dunne 

2016   Hannah Brown, Floorr Magazine Issue 6, 30.09.16

2016   The Aborealists, The Art of the Tree, Sansom and Company

2015   A Form of Making, Turps Banana magazine, Issue15 by Graham Crowley

2015   I don't like art, collected essays and interviews, Graham Crowley 
2015   Uncertain prospects and a park that keeps secrets, The Irish Times, 19.05.15 by Aidan Dunne 

2013   Landscapes that Pass Over in Silence, The Huffington Post, 2.03.13 by James Payne 

2013   At the Edges, Exhibition catalogue with essay by Graham Crowley 
2013   Review of At the Edges, a-n Interface 

2012   John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Exhibition catalogue, National Museums Liverpool

2012   Hoxton and Shoreditch Contemporary Art Reviews ArtLyst, 10.11.12 by Emily Sack

2012   The Unseen Landscape, Diva Magazine, 05.11.12 by Anna McNay
2012   Critic's Choice, Time Out London, 10.10.12 by Helen Sumpter

2008   Editorial, The Guardian, 02.07.08

2005   Day-to-Day Data, Exhibition catalogue, Angel Row Gallery, 2005

2005   The Guide, Guardian, 23.07.05 by Robert Clark

2003   Et Tu Billy Buzman!, Time Out London, 30.07.03 by Rebecca Gelard

2003   Sleazenation, July 2003 by Alasdair Hopwood

2003   The Guide, Guardian, 14.06.03 by Jessica Lack

1999   21, Spacex Gallery, Express and Echo, 11.12.99 by Jason Woolfe


 AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2019  Hospital Rooms commission, Hellingly Centre, East Sussex 
2019   Dentons art prize - staff winner 

1996  Exeter College Purchase Prize

 

COLLECTIONS

V&A, London 
Office of Public Works, State Art Collection, Ireland 
Barts Hospital Collection, London 
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
Private collections in UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, China, and U.A.E.